Today, Ali Larter is causing continuity issues. She’s so mischievous. There she is, filming a scene for Heroes, when using some kind of bizarre superhero power, she manages to cause her clothes to change colour. How does she do it?
Have you seen Ali Larter acting randomly? If so, let us know and we’ll tell everyone about it in “Random Acts of Ali Larter“
When Heroes first came out, I did the usual thing of checking the cast list to see if there was anyone I knew whom I liked on the list. “Masi Oka? Okay, he’s in Scrubs. Ali Larter? Ooh, I liked her in Legally Blonde. She’s really hot, too. Greg Grunberg? That’s that pal of JJ Abrams who’s on Alias and everything else JJ Abrams has ever done, isn’t it? Adrian Pasdar? Profit!”
However, I was probably the only person to go: “Oh my God. It’s Ashley Crow! Mickey from Probe!”
Ashley Crow? She plays Claire’s mum Sandra on Heroes. And here she is on Probe:
Probe was one of those shows back in the 90s when the UK SciFi Channel started up that got repeated over and over again because they didn’t have the rights to anything else. So I got to watch a lot of it. It’s one of Isaac Asimov’s few interactions with television and bears all his hallmarks: reclusive scientific genius with few social skills investigates technology-related crimes with the assistance of his secretary Mickey, who brings him out of his shell. It’s basically Murder He Calculated, with a very small amount of Moonlighting thrown in.
It wasn’t a great show, but it was fun. And I liked Ashley Crow in it, even if she did have a thankless role. Below, you can watch all of the first episode on YouTube and there’s a fan site over here if you want more information. I just like the fact that the hot sidekicks of yesteryear still get to work in the 21st century. All that stuff with Sandra telling Claire about when she was a kid and doing what Claire was doing – it almost felt like a nod to Probe.
When Heroes first came out, I did the usual thing of checking the cast list to see if there was anyone I knew whom I liked on the list. “Masi Oka? Okay, he’s in Scrubs. Ali Larter? Ooh, I liked her in Legally Blonde. She’s really hot, too. Greg Grunberg? That’s that pal of JJ Abrams who’s on Alias and everything else JJ Abrams has ever done, isn’t it? Adrian Pasdar? Profit!”
However, I was probably the only person to go: “Oh my God. It’s Ashley Crow! Mickey from Probe!”
Ashley Crow? She plays Claire’s mum Sandra on Heroes. And here she is on Probe:
Probe was one of those shows back in the 90s when the UK SciFi Channel started up that got repeated over and over again because they didn’t have the rights to anything else. So I got to watch a lot of it. It’s one of Isaac Asimov’s few interactions with television and bears all his hallmarks: reclusive scientific genius with few social skills investigates technology-related crimes with the assistance of his secretary Mickey, who brings him out of his shell. It’s basically Murder He Calculated, with a very small amount of Moonlighting thrown in.
It wasn’t a great show, but it was fun. And I liked Ashley Crow in it, even if she did have a thankless role. Below, you can watch all of the first episode on YouTube and there’s a fan site over here if you want more information. I just like the fact that the hot sidekicks of yesteryear still get to work in the 21st century. All that stuff with Sandra telling Claire about when she was a kid and doing what Claire was doing – it almost felt like a nod to Probe.
The wonderful Zooey Deschanel and the perfectly acceptable Joseph Gordon-Levitt have a new movie out called 500 Days of Summer. I haven’t seen it, but I hear that despite them, it’s not very good. Oh dear.
But in the movie, there’s a scene where the two young lovers compare their relationship to Sid and Nancy’s. Here it is:
Cinemash is doing a new project in which various actors re-enact scenes from famous movies. So it’s appropriate that they start off with our Zooey and Joseph Gordon-Levitt re-enacting a scene from Sid and Nancy. Unfortunately, you can’t embed the vids (easily), so you’ll just have to go to Cinemash to watch it.
Also coming up: Cheech and Chong do Tron (seriously), Milo Ventimiglia from Heroes doing Oldboy and Will Arnett and Xavier from Adult Swim do Carrie. Should be interesting.
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